Concept that States don't understand
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Microsoft plans to argue that the penalties - which include forcing Microsoft to release a "modular" version of Windows in which Microsoft features can be removed in favor of third-party alternatives - are not just Draconian, but impossible to carry out.
"Third party applications that rely on (the removed Windows software) will stop working as they're supposed to," said Brad Smith, Microsoft's incoming general counsel. "It's going to create new security vulnerabilities in the Windows product because as people move code they're going to create holes in the software." ... "At the end of the day it wouldn't offer any benefits that would make those problems justifiable," Smith said.